Fifty years later, A Charlie Brown Christmas still stands apart from other holiday specials thanks to its wistful tone and ghostly jazz soundtrack. Ron Hart talks with artists from a variety of genres about their memories of the show and its indelible music.

The Superchunk frontman, Merge Records honcho, and overall indie rock immortal talks to Jayson Greene about the music of his life: combining Donald Duck and the Rolling Stones as a kid, seeing U2 and Grandmaster Flash at the same gig, and being blissfully confounded by Dirty Projectors.

With the music business in an especially volatile state right now, Marc Hogan puts the industry’s woes in perspective by breaking down how we’ve valued songs and albums over the course of more than a century—and learns that the economics of music can be more dark art than dismal science.

Coachella 2014 went down over the weekend, featuring acts such as OutKast, Arcade Fire, the Knife, Beck, the Replacements, and many more. Photographer Chris Tuite was there to take shots of the performances as well as some portraits of the artists backstage.

In celebration of Record Store Day, artists including Danny Brown, How to Dress Well, the National, Jim James, Bat for Lashes, A.C. Newman, Madlib, Sharon Van Etten, and others tell us about their favorite record stores and experiences.